Re: [Nmh-workers] What OS/Architecture Do You Run nmh On?

[Paul Vixie]

Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:33:51 -0800 Paul Vixie<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > if we wanted the effort of an actual rewrite, we would need to justify
> > the time expenditure with a potentially larger user population, which
> > means reconsideration of features that younger people actually depend
> > on, like imap and mime. i'd be up for that.
>
> What specific mime related features do you have in mind?

i'd like to provide the MH view via FUSE rather than files-on-disk. 
rather than using command line utilities to extract a mime part, i want 
to access it by ~/Mail/inbox/135/part1.exe or whatever.

hold onto your hats because i'd also like to do this even for imap 
mailboxes which are not present in my file system at all, and Maildir 
mailboxes which are present but not in the format MH thinks they are.

in that world, inc would speak Maildir format, and the FUSE layer would 
be able to deal translucently with actual MH format archives, but those 
would begin the process of dying off or getting converted to Maildir.

what seems to have been lost on the other historians here is that mark 
ignored MH when he made imap, and that bernstein ignored MH when he made 
Maildir -- and both are _better_ than MH for all modern purposes. MH is 
now an eddy pool of the e-mail river.

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P Vixie